I created an rpm package that extract a Node.js project into a specific folder and then I created a postinstall script that cd into that folder and perform an "npm install --production"
#!/bin/bash
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I've established a fully working IPv4 OpenVPN setup and wanted to go one step further and experiment with setting up IPv6. My VPS server does not get a native IPv6 block but does have a 6in4 tunnel ...

I have configured two hard disk with Software RAID 1.The grub is not installed properly in the hard disk.I came to know this issue by booting the hard disk in separate process.The Centos 6.2 did not ...

A CentOS 7 web server has postfix, dovecot, and mailx installed. I have been able to make an IMAP connection to the server in order to read inbox mail using a remote Thunderbird client, but I am not ...

I'm trying to create a script that mysqldumps all my databases, creating an individual .sql file for each database and combines the output into backup-DATE.tar.gz.
I've gotten as far as being able to ...

I have a custom CentOS install which used to fit on 1 CD. With recent additions, it takes up more space than can fit on 1 CD. Some of our customers have old systems that aren't DVD compatible so we ...

I have just installed CentOS-7, Minimal Installation, into a Hyper-V VM under Windows Server 2008 R2.
When I Start the VM from Hyper-V Manager it opens a window it calls Virtual Machine Connection, ...

I have a RHEL 5 box that is constantly displaying nic statistics on the console screen when using the KVM. This makes it very hard to do any troubleshooting when the box goes down as these statistics ...

I have a CentOS 5.6 VM and have been able to send emails from my PHP application up until two days ago.
I am trying to find the SMTP server config details in my sendmail files somewhere, but I cannot ...

I typed unix2dos /path/to/filename_unix.txt /path/to/filename_dos.txt in the CentOS 7 terminal, but I got the following in response:
unix2dos: converting file /path/to/filename_unix.txt to DOS format ...

I have a script that checks to see if port 4000 is open and listening, if it is return true, else start a service that also outputs a logfile. The script runs fine if I execute it as a user, but if I ...

I upgraded a local Centos VM from 6.5 to 6.6. After the update, no restart is needed and the desktop works. When I restart, I see the blue startup bar and CentOS 6.6 on the right side of it. When the ...

I am trying to install the stress package on CentOS 7 virtual machine running on vmware player on windows 7 laptop. I have tried many packages and have updated yum but whenever I run sudo yum install ...

I want to replace Windows Server 2012 R2 and Hyper-V on my homeserver with CentOS and KVM. My plan is to virtualize one Windows 8.1 machine and several smaller Linux machines like on Hyper-V, there is ...

When I try to install the stress package on SUSE11 and Centos 7, yum tells me that it isn't found or that stress as a command does not exist. Anywhere I have looked online tells me that it is as easy ...

My company is going through an audit and I have taking over the role of Linux systems administrator unofficially. I see our current logging system has it to were we basically keep a months worth of ...

Is there anyway do deploy updates for Windows OS desktops, from a custom source? I frequently work on computers, and installing Windows 7 with an OEM disk and waiting for my slow internet connection ...

i have Centos 6 installed, it was work fine till today, but suddenly when i turned it on today my vms doesn't show any thing, all my setup are correct i know that for sure but my graphic doesnt work i ...

We are running several centos 6.4 lamp stacks, and our backup solution (unitrends) has a client that requires xinetd.
Can these two coexist on the same server? If so, is there any secret handshake I ...

My question:
How can I make sure LFTP only includes files AND directories using --include or --include-glob, and not download a bunch of extra directories from the root of the remote that aren't in ...